The Scent of the Father

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including  The Invention of Africa , have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time. In  The Scent of the Father , Mudimbe set himself the task o